10 May 2009

Television: More genealogy-related shows?

Genea-blogger colleague Bill West chimed in on the scheduling delay in the US-version of "Who Do You Think You Are?" and provided ideas for additional genealogy-related shows.

Here are Bill's ideas, followed by mine. Anyone else have gen-related program ideas?

Bill's ideas:

1. "I'm a Genealogist, Get Me Out of Here? - The adventures of five researchers stranded in the Library of Congress. [Note from Schelly: But would we really want to leave? This takes it from the reality genre to the fantasy. Don't we all want to be locked into a library? Or is it just me?]

2. "Genealogy Medium" - Examines the genealogy of the ghosts that Alison DuBois talks with.

3. "Last Gedcom Standing" - Teams of genealogists examine family trees looking for errors.

I'm adding these:

4. "Lost" - Drop teams of genealogists (without language skills) in an unknown international location and ask them to find the family history of a certain family from that location within a set time frame. The first team to complete the task wins either a lot of cash or subscriptions to all the paid-access databases!

And for kids:

5. "Where in the World is Waldo's Family?" - Kids find clues to family history in this animated show.

Okay, time for your ideas!

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the mention, Schelly!

    But I still wish NBC would make up their mind!

    Bill

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  2. You're welcome, Bill. Ancestry is collaborating on the website, so maybe they need more time to get the package together. Meanwhile, we sit and wait ... and wait ... and wait....

    Schelly

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